Section: News & Summaries

Ukrainian Member of Parliament, former journalist Ihor Lutsenko says that former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, who now lives in Russia, his Income and Tax Minister Oleksandr Klymenko and Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko, who was reported to be involved in the forced dispersals of Maidan protests late in 2013 and early in 2014, are not now...

Ukraine, Montenegro, Albania, Liechtenstein, and Norway have aligned themselves with the sanctions extended by the Council of the European Union against Russia as restrictive measures for undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. ”The Candidate Countries Montenegro and Albania, and the EFTA...

Russia is not going to leave Donbas the very next day, and a peaceful settlement of the crisis may take decades, according to head of the Center for Ukrainian Research of the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Mironenko. ”There cannot be such a solution to the political compromise that [Russian President Vladimir]...

Ukraine had threshed 51.4 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops, including maize, as of October 24 from 12.2 million hectares (ha), which is 85% of the plan, according to the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry. The average grain yield is 4.23 tonnes per hectare. Farmers have almost completed a campaign to harvest late grain crops....

Kyiv-based company Precision Systems has developed a new, handheld version of the Soviet-made 30 mm automatic grenade Launcher AGS-17, which was displayed for the first time at Ukraine`s AviaSvit/Arms and Security show, held in Kyiv Oct 11-14, British military portal IHS Jane`s Defence Weekly reports, according to Ukraine Today. Company officials...

Russia has devised a series of asymmetric measures to be taken should the United States tighten up sanctions, Deputy Foreign Minister Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Monday, according to Russian news agency TASS. See also: Putin admits impact of anti-Russian sanctions The diplomat was speaking at a meeting of the Federation...

A total of 30% of Ukrainians would choose seeking permanent residence abroad, while almost 65% probably would rather stay in their homeland, according to a study conducted by Rating sociological group in September 2016. To a large extent, those who are willing to go abroad for permanent residence or work are residents of western and central...

Combined Russian-separatist forces launched about 100 shells on the Ukrainian positions in the Donetsk sector in the last day, according to Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Andriy Lysenko. ”In the Donetsk sector, the fighting took place in two areas yesterday – Luhanske and Avdiyivka. The occupiers used heavy...

The Normandy format of talks allows Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw from the conflict in eastern Ukraine in a way ”not to be an enemy of all mankind in the end”, an expert from Anatoliy Sobchak Foundation Sergei Stankevich has told UNIAN in his comments. ”The format has been revived as it allows Moscow to withdraw from this fettering...